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JOHN S. MASON, OFIOOAL RUN, OHIO.

Letters Para: No. 82,137, ma Settimane, 186s.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED CORN-PLANTER Alll) GL'I'IVAIOR.

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Be it known that I, JOHN MASON, of Coal Run, in the county of Washington, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and improved CombinationofCorn-Planter and Cultivator; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilledin the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. v

This invention relates to a new and Auseful combination of acorn-planter and cultivator; and it consists in a. peculiar construction and arrangement of the same, as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby' the device may, with the greatest facility, be readily converted from a corn-planter into a cultivator, and vz'ce versa, and the device constructed at a very moderate cost. i

In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure l is a side sectional view of my invention, taken in the line z an, iig. 2.

Figure 2, a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a rectangular frame, which is mounted on two wheels, B B, and has a draught-pole, C

I attached,A and a drivers seat, D, upon it at the rear of the wheelsB.

i E is a seed-box, which is placed transversely on the frame A, in front of the axle of the wheels B, and

extends the whole width of the frame.

In thebottom of this seed-box there is tted longitudinally a sliding` bar, F, having a hole, a, made in it near each end, and on the bottom, 6, ofthe seed-box, near. each end, there is secured a plate, c, each having two openings, al al, made in it, one near each end, and a cut-off, e, at the centre, said eut-os being directly over discharge-spouts, f, through which the seed passes into lexible tubes, (not shown,) which tubes conduct the seedlinto tubes, g, attached to the standards k ofthe furrow-shares G. A y l The bar F is operated by 'hand through the medium of a. bent lever, H, which is connected by a rod, I, with a hand-lever, J, the latter being within convenient reach of the drivers seat D.

The bent lever H is shown by dotted lines in lig. 2. l

The holes a in the sliding bar F are filled with seed'as they come inline with the openings d al in the plates e, the seed being discharged as the holes come in line with the tops of the'discharge-spoutsf.

To the front cross-piece, 7L, of the frame A there are attached two clips, z' z', to which the front ends of two plow-beams, K K, are connected by joints j, which admit of the beams rising and falling in vertical planes.

The rear parts of these beams are of metal, and they are curved so as to form the standards z, which have the furrow-shares Gr at their lower ends,'coveringshares, z'X, being attachedto said standards just above the Shares G. i

Each beam K is connected, by a chain, j, to a crank, 1:, on a. shaft, L, and this shaft has a lever, M, at one end of it, which, like the lever J, is within convenient reach ofthe seat D.

Theshares G are raised out of the ground'by depressing the lever M, and lowering theirwork by raising it.

In using the device as a cultivator, supplemental share-standards, N, having shares, O, at their lower ends, are attached to the beams K'.

This implement may be used equally well either as a corn-planter or cultivator,y and may be constructed at a moderate cost.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Y The plow-heams K K, attached -to the frame A by joints j, in connection with the standards hand coveringplates z'X,'crank-shat`t L, to the cranks k of which the beams are connected by chains, and the lever M at one end of the shaft. L, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN S. MASON.

Witnesses RALPH STARLIN, R. LANG. 

